ispace EUROPE, based in Luxembourg, is seeking a highly motivated Senior Business Development Specialist to join its Business Team.
ispace EUROPE is the Luxembourg-based entity of ispace inc., a leading global lunar exploration space company headquartered in Japan, with entities in Europe and the US. ispace provides lunar transportation services on spacecraft developed in both Japan and the US, lunar surface mobility through rovers developed in Luxembourg and data products and services from across our lunar platforms and operations. We are a small team, motivated by the challenges of the Lunar Frontier, and determined to achieve the company’s vision: to expand and sustain humanity’s presence in space by developing a lunar economy built on the resources available on the Moon!
Reporting to the ispace Europe Business Director, the Senior Business Development Specialist is responsible for advancing revenue generation in the Europe (including UK), Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. In this role, you will actively contribute to market segment strategy development and lead implementation of segment strategy to realise revenue across ispace’s full lunar services and products offerings. You will both generate new customer and market opportunities as well as manage opportunities through the complete business development pipeline, through contract negotiation and to agreement finalisation. You will lead customer/opportunity and proposal win strategy and value proposition development, and manage contributions from across ispace’s global technical and business teams to develop and write content for highly successful proposals and tender submissions to both government and commercial customers. You will work closely with legal advisers and the ispace Europe Business Manager in drafting Payload Services Agreements, NDA and other partnership documents. You will represent ispace at international conferences and events, presenting on ispace missions and achievements, as well as proactively networking to identify new opportunities for sales and partnerhships, to advance ispace as a leading global lunar exploration company.
The position will be based in Luxembourg, on-site and will report to the EU Business Director. It will closely collaborate with ispace EUROPE’s other Business Team members as well as business teams in ispace’s Japan and US offices and technical teams across ispace globally.
What we offer
Work in lunar exploration every day! We offer you an inspiring working atmosphere alongside highly motivated fellow team members, and a working environment that uniquely combines current development in deep space technology with commercial relevance. We work on the lunar frontier. Every. Day.
If you want to be a part of a truly global, leading space company fully focused on lunar exploration and you have proven experience in technical sales and business development, we want to hear from you!
Please attach English Resume and Mandatory Cover Letter when you apply for this position.